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Meg Gaertner is CLOSED to submissions
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Managing #kidlit Editor @fluxbooks.bsky.social + @jollyfishpress.bsky.social. YA/Adult sff writer. Shortlisted for the Page Turner Writing Award + Oxford/Pushkin Children's Books Fantasy Prize. CHASING STARS (hi-lo MG) out now! she/her.
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Recently devoured all of Tana French’s novels and craving more. Any recommendations for what I should read next?
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Received some cool news while on maternity leave: My YA sci-fi, THE ORACLE HAS QUESTIONS, made the top 150 in the Novelry’s Next Big Story contest (in which there were more than 22,000 entries!)!
A badge with the words “Commended: Top 150 in The Next Big Story”
September 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Just finished this absolutely delightful MG mystery on NetGalley and I LOVED IT!!! Check it out! #mg #mgmystery #kidlit
jollyfishpress.bsky.social Jolly Fish Press @jollyfishpress.bsky.social · May 9
THE CASSETTE TAPE SECRET by Danielle Herzog is now available to request for early review on NetGalley and Edelweiss+!

This middle grade mystery releases on October 21. 📼💚

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The Cassette Tape Secret Currently on NetGalley and Edelweiss+ When thirteen-year-old Alex discovers a decades-old secret buried in his front yard, propelling him into the center of a local mystery, he's forced out of the safe routine he built to accommodate his OCD and challenged to solve the mystery, embrace a new friendship, and explore the complicated history of his community. Available October 21, 2025
June 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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We are thrilled that THE SONGBIRD AND THE RAMBUTAN TREE by Lucille Abendanon is the #ForewordINDIES Gold Winner for Juvenile Fiction! ❤️ www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...
2024 GOLD Winner for Juvenile Fiction The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree Contributor(s) Lucille Abendanon Publisher Jolly Fish Press ISBN-13 978-1-63163-820-6 Publication Date Jan 23, 2024
June 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Today’s the day! Happy pub day to @sabkleckner.bsky.social and her absolutely delightful cast of characters in THE COMPLEX ART OF BEING MAISIE CLARK!
fluxbooks.bsky.social Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · May 28
“Kleckner beautifully captures Maisie’s emotional landscape....With themes of self-discovery, bravery, and starting over, this story will stick with readers past its ending.” —Booklist

THE COMPLEX ART OF BEING MAISIE CLARK by @sabkleckner.bsky.social —June 10!

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“Kleckner beautifully captures Maisie’s emotional landscape in her bright personality and bantery voice, as well as the touching conversations that help her begin to believe in herself. With themes of self-discovery, bravery, and starting over, this story will stick with readers past its ending.” —Booklist
June 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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We are excited to share that CHASING STARS by @meggaertner.com is a 2025 Childrens Book Council Favorites Award winner! 💫

In this middle grade Hi-Lo novel, a twelve-year-old girl struggles to adapt to big changes within her familly.

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Chasing Stars by Meg Gaertner A 2025 CBC Favorites Award Winner
May 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Psyched to get to work with @jengelmattern.bsky.social to bring this gorgeous story into the world!!!
jengelmattern.bsky.social Jenny Mattern @jengelmattern.bsky.social · May 14
I’m all about haiku on this site, but I’m shamelessly going to drop this here because I’m pretty proud of it. 💜
May 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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“A heartfelt story... MIGHTY MILLIE NOVAK shows how life’s shake-ups can quickly put everything in perspective and help us see what makes us mighty.” —@jmillwrites.bsky.social, author of WE GOT THE BEAT

Available now! 🛼 @elizabethwriter.bsky.social

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“A heartfelt story full of feelings, messiness, and roller derby! Mighty Millie Novak shows how life’s shake-ups can quickly put everything in perspective and help us see what makes us mighty. Millie’s derby family rolled their way into my heart!” —Jenna Miller, author of We Got the Beat
May 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“@tlsimpson.bsky.social's frank, unflinching portrait of two defiant teens struggling to transcend brutal violence is a crackling alchemy of baseball and punk rock....A rare, relentless, gorgeous gem of a novel...” —
@sarahlariviere.bsky.social (RIOT ACT)

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“Simpson’s frank, unflinching portrait of two defiant teens struggling to transcend brutal violence is a crackling alchemy of baseball and punk rock that shook me, made me cheer, and kept me up all night. A rare, relentless, gorgeous gem of a novel, recommended for anyone who's ever had something to fight.” —Sarah Lariviere, author of Time Travel for Love and Profit
May 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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“@sabkleckner.bsky.social delivers a heartwarming, giddiness-inducing journey.” —@matthewhubbard.bsky.social, author of THE LAST BOYFRIENDS RULES FOR REVENGE and THE REBEL'S GUIDE TO PRIDE

THE COMPLEX ART OF BEING MAISIE CLARK releases June 10!

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“Sabrina Kleckner delivers a heartwarming, giddiness-inducing journey in search of what it means to define your identity, proving that coming of age is not only a complex art but also a masterpiece of coloring outside the lines!” —Matthew Hubbard, author of The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge and The Rebel’s Guide to Pride
May 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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We're glad to share that THE SONGBIRD AND THE RAMBUTAN TREE by Lucille Abendanon has been selected as a 2025 Independent Book Publishers Association Award winner! ❤️ This middle grade historical fiction debut is available now.

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The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree by Lucille Abendanon 2025 IBPA Book Award Winner Middle Grade Fiction
May 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Great news! CHASING STARS, my middle grade hi-lo (high-interest, low reading level) novel published through @jollyfishpress.bsky.social is a 2025 CBC Favorites Award Winner in the Middle Grade category! That means 6th-8th graders across the country read it and rated it as one of their favorites!
Shows the cover of CHASING STARS, a middle grade hi-lo novel, which has a frozen, forest-encircled lake in the background, and two girls’ held hands in the foreground, complete with friendship bracelets.
May 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Author Nancy Carlson visited Glen Lake Elementary to read her new book, A SWING FOR SAMARA, at the school that inspired it! 💙 This book shows the power of community and highlights the the right that all children have to play.

Available now!

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A smiling woman, Nancy Carlson, standing at a microphone with an open copy of a picture book entitled A Swing for Samara A large number of elementary-school aged children sitting on a gym floor, attentively listening while Nancy reads to them.
April 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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THE LAMPLIGHTER is a 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist! Congratulations, @cjbell.bsky.social!

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The Lamplighter by Crystal J. Bell A 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist Young Adult Fiction
April 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Excited to announce our 3rd annual MGHub Off-Social-Media pitching event for all ages of kidlit: PB / CB / MG / YA Click to learn more… #mglit #kidlit #pitch
MG Hub Pitch Party 2025
MG Hub Pitch Party 2025 The Middle Grade Hub (MG Hub - (https://bsky.app/profile/middlegradehub.bsky.social) is hosting its third annual pitch party! The Pitch Party Unlike other pitch parties, this...
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March 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The wait is over! COPE FIELD by @tlsimpson.bsky.social is available now. Don't miss this thrilling, romantic, and poignant YA contemporary about courage and surviving abuse. ❤️⚾️

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Cope Field by T. L. Simpson Now Available Black and white illustration of a teenage boy dressed in a baseball uniform and baseball helmet, holding a bat. He is shielding his face using the helmet.
April 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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WHAT WE DID TO EACH OTHER by Josuee Hernández is available to request for early review! 📕 Out 9/30/25.

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Two Latinx teens grapple with the power and privilege of whiteness until their actions put them on a dangerous collision course.
Flux logo Book cover of WHAT WE DID TO EACH OTHER Now on NetGalley and Edelweiss
April 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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THE SONGBIRD AND THE RAMBUTAN TREE by Lucille Abendanon is a A 2024 Freeman Book Awards Winner! 💙 Available now.

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The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree A 2024 Freeman Book Awards Winner
April 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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First, watch Adolescence on Netflix—a terrifying but incredibly well-written four-episode series. It is well worth any parent’s time—or anyone who regularly comes into contact with young people in this intensely online era.

Second, read this short article by one of the writers.

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‘The younger me would have sat up and nodded’: Adolescence writer Jack Thorne on the insidious appeal of incel culture
Researching mine and Stephen Graham’s Netflix drama, I realised the brains of under 16s are unable to cope with ideas as dangerous as those in the ‘manosphere’. The government needs to ban smartphones...
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March 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Woohoo!!!
fluxbooks.bsky.social Flux Books @fluxbooks.bsky.social · Mar 26
We are excited to share that THE LAMPLIGHTER is a nominee in the 35th Annual Reading the West Book Awards! ✨ Congratulations, @cjbell.bsky.social!

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March 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Ahh!!! So excited for this book to be introduced to the world!!!
March 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION

Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member:

Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800
Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com
A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064) Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108) Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371) Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007) JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP 601 California Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, California 94108 Telephone: (415) 500-6800 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com cyoung@saverilawfirm.com kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953) 1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406 Los Angeles, CA 90027 Telephone: (323) 968-2632 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: mb@buttericklaw.com Counsel for Individual and Representative Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class" A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION Richard Kadrey, an individual; Sarah Silverman, an individual; Christopher Golden, an individual; Individual and Representative Plaintiffs, v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Case No. Complaint Class Action Demand for Jury Trial Defendant."
March 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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We are proud to share that THE FIGHT FOR MIDNIGHT is a 2025 Spirit of Texas Reading List selection! 🧡 Congratulations, @dansolomon.com!

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March 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Better late than never to share, but . . . these two weirdos are having a baby! If all things go to plan, this kid will be making his debut in August! As if that wasn't enough, we also just bought a house! So agents + authors, if I seem out of it these next months, I blame this (delightful) chaos.
Meg is smiling and showing off her pregnant belly with her spouse.
March 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I’m very excited to see Racing the Clouds featured here in such wonderful company! Thank you, @imaginationsoup.bsky.social!!
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March 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM